r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 11d ago

/r/all McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

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u/Kimberlylynn2003 11d ago

Did they change to stop marketing toward kids or just wanted modern?

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u/InformationOk3060 11d ago

Society changed. In the 80's you had 6 TV channels and unless it was TGFI, or Saturday/Sunday morning cartoons, nothing on TV was really entertaining for kids. There was no Internet, video games were expensive, parents had to pay 10 cents a minute to make a phone call outside of the town they lived in, unless it was past 8pm.

Parents wanted to go out and sit at a restaurant, chat, let the kids play around in the play pen for a while and wear themselves out, especially when it was really cheap. Now parents would much rather just get food through the drive thru and sit themselves or their kids on the coach in front of the TV or a tablet.